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open"I'm Bob, son of... Chuck" (Fish out of Water introductions in general)
When the Fish out of Water or (the person they meet, if the Fish is coming to the mundane world) introduce themselves and get the typical culture clash.
Also as:
These could be classified under multiple tropes.
Edited by milodevenusopenCreepy glitch
I there a trope for when gitches are used to do scary effect ? Like some abomination that can cause glitches in real life, even if it's just visual, it add to the creepy factor.
Edited by jOSEFdelavilleopenName Combined Group Name
A group, two or more characters, are referred to with a group name made up of...well, their names, combined. Or there's a group or something named after multiple characters with combined names. Is this just an in-universe Portmanteau Couple Name (even if not for shipping), or is it distinct?
To give an idea of what I'm referring to, in Rags, Charlie's stepbrothers, Andrew and Lloyd, form a singing duo called Android, combining their names. It's not a shipping so I don't exactly want to use a shipping-based trope for it...
openLooking for three tropes
- What is the trope for if there's a protagonist team and either the full work or a specific section of the work is essentially a showcase of how each member of the team contributes as they one by one get the spotlight. This can rely on their specific strengths or on the need for numbers. For example 1, in The After School Midnighters, the three girls represent strength, style, and intelligence and each of the three challenges requires another skill. For example 2, in the Tower of Salvation in Tales of Symphonia, a team member is left behind on each floor to allow the rest of the group to keep ascending.
- There is a Magic Hair trope, but is there a trope for Hair Magic? Magic Hair presumes the hair has inherent magical properties, while Hair Magic would be about normal hair used to do something magical. The Bayonetta example on the Magic Hair seems to be what I mean, and doesn't seem to belong on Magic Hair. Other examples would be an Irish(?) folktale in which a rope made from a virgin's hair is unbreakable (ie, a virgin's hair is not unbreakable, just the rope made from it), Voodoo Dolls with hair implanted, the harp strings in "The Twa Sisters", and "hair of the dog that bit you".
- You know sometimes in video games you walk by a corpse that has a sword through its torso and then it gets up and pulls the sword out and starts attacking you with it? Is there a trope for something like Weaponized Murder Weapon?
openSudden Death Trope?
A trope for a character... who dies very suddenly. Like one minute they're fine, chilling with the main cast, the next minute headshot.
openVisual Foreshadowing
Is there a specific trope for when a plot element is foreshadowed not through actual information or details, but purely through visual motifs and other aesthetic details? Like giving the Evil All Along guy costume details from the evil faction's costume, having the secret prince end up surrounded by royalty symbols, ect.
openInterviews Aways Spoil Live Action TV
Does a trope exist for when someone drops a spoiler about an upcoming work in an interview (eg, when Pedro Pascal revealed The Mandalorian's real name well ahead of the S1 finale)? It doesn't look like it would fall under Trailers Always Spoil.
openDopperlanger Replacement Love Interest... except not quite?
Is there any trope when the Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest is pretty similar to the lost person, except they didn't have feelings for the old person?
I.E.: Bob was just friends with Alice, who died years ago. Later, he gets into a relationship with Charlotte, who is pretty similar to Alice.
What is that trope?
Edited by JTTWloveropenResurrection trope
In the fanfic I'm working on, one of the plot points is that characters who were canonically sucked into the show's equivalent of Hell get resurrected intentionally by the work's Big Bad to sew some discourse. They didn't break out on their own and technically some of them weren't actual characters who died, but evil versions of the protagonists turned into their own sentient and separate beings.
Is there any trope that covers this sort of thing?
openNew character who dies immediately
Is there a trope for a character who is introduced into a work, only to be killed off almost immediately?
openWatching Television Live Action TV
When T Vs somehow have the ability to spy on unsuspecting viewers. Also expands to be any undesirable use of the TV, e.g. mind control.
Example: Dr. Who S 2 E 7, "The Idiot's Lantern", or The Incredible's 2.
openUrban Legend of Zelda without proof otherwise? Videogame
Does it still count as Urban Legend of Zelda if we never really found out if it was true or not?
- NiGHTS into Dreams… had a cut boss character named Selph. Very little is known about this character aside from the mere fact that there was going to be a boss named Selph. One common rumor involves an icon from the game's Japanese website, depicting what looks like a twisted and evil-looking version of NiGHTS' head. Many fans believe that this character is Selph, but nothing has been confirmed or denied.
openHappy Circus Music
Since we have Creepy Circus Music, would it be possible to make a trope about happy circus music, in the vein of Non-Ironic Clown? Genuinely cheerful circus-y music that sets a fun mood? Is that tropeworthy?
openWe needs a shootout!... except no.
Picture this scene; The Hero and a group of bad guys have a Mexican Standoff, but for some reason or another, they cannot fire their weapons, and are forced to Take a Third Option.
For instance, in On Deadly Ground, in the middle of a shootout Steven Seagal and the mercenaries shooting at him suddenly have to stop firing, because they're on an oil rig where gasoline is leaking, and a stray shot could cause a massive explosion that kills everybody. Cue everyone disposing their guns for a big fight scene.
Or in GoldenEye, James Bond is in the middle of a room full of gas tanks, where the Russians are unable to fire their AK-47 on him because they risk blowing up the whole place.
Or in US Seals 2, where the titular Seals para-drops on the main villain's island lair, only to find out the lair is built on an unstable nuclear reactor where guns could trigger a nuclear explosion. So they spend the rest of the movie fighting enemy mooks with machetes, knives and tonfas, the sort.
Do we have a trope for this?
Edited by RobertTYLopenShades Of Blackness
NOTE: I'm a person of color asking this, so don't be alarmed.
Let's say there's a trio of best friends who are people of color but with different shades. One is light-brown, one is dark brown and the final one has the darkest skin. Despite the different pigmentations, they all share the same Caribbean heritage and naturally them together showcases unity.
Edited by JC96openmysteriously missing word
Is there a trope for when a language inexplicably lacks a word for some common thing? For a real life example: English has the personal pronoun "who" and the impersonal "that" and "which", but doesn't have an impersonal equivalent to "whose", meaning you have to say things like "the house whose roof is green", even though that's really weird when you think about it.
Edited by BootlebatopenThird installment curse
First movie rules. Second movie is just as good or even better. Third movie kinda tanks.
openCharacter Dramatically Looks Up at Camera
Usually used to accentuate that something important is going to happen in the near future. It's NOT really meant to Break the Fourth Wall in the way Aside Glance is, and is almost always done in a dramatic rather than humorous context. Examples: Ninjago Also Ninjago Predestination Persona 5 (sort of) The Flash
Edited by Troper48
A girl has to wear her mother's (or grandmother's) old dress for a special occasion, and there's two ways it can play out. Either the dress is incredibly outdated and unstylish but they wear it because it's sentimental to their parents, or it's completely stunning and getting to borrow it is a big moment for them.
TBH, this might be two different tropes, as the "forced to wear embarrassing thing" variant happens regardless of where the thing came from.
Edited by WarJay77